>> Bloody marvellous. There was lots of black PVC and latex, I got me
>> tattoo, Mr Lisa became a gay icon, and we had chicken jamabalaya and
>> champagne.
I'm really crap at writing reports. Besides, for us it was a totally
different experience this time around as it was the first time we had
not bought tickets for the Pavilion event.
Last October was an utter shambles. See, what's supposed to happen is
you turn up before 7pm with your ticket where it is exchanged for a
wristband. This is your passport in and out of the event for the
whole weekend. However, when we got there at 6:30pm they had stopped
exchanging tickets and locked the doors but we were told to come back
when they opened again. So, as we had only just arrived in Whitby we
went and found our accommodation, got unpacked, showered, changed, ate
something, etc, and back we went to exchange our tickets. We waited
in a queue for an hour and a half and weren't allowed in until they
had found another box of wristbands. We even tried to reason and said
we had tickets which was proof enough we had paid for the event, why
couldn't we come back and get a wristband later as we would need it
for the rest of the weekend and they let us in there and then but they
wouldn't. As it was, we missed two out of the five bands which were on
that night and I was bloody furious. Apparently, it's not the first
time something similar has happened, so I said I wasn't spending £80
or £90 on another two tickets until they got their act together.
Anyway, that was last October.
So this time we decided to go to all of the overspill venues instead,
which were mostly either free or a few pounds to get in. There was
all kinds on. Friday night the Met was hosting a burlesque night in
the ballroom, but to be honest the cheesy karaoke in the main bar was
far more entertaining. There was also a club night on upstairs in the
Resolution with a band downstairs, and Laughton's was doing it's usual
thing till the early hours.
Saturday morning, there was a very touching dedication to Sophie
Lancaster, with a lovely gentle speech from Ade Varney and Sophie's
mum Sylvia said a few words and thanked everybody. Lots of cameras
and media bods around who kept getting in the way.
The rest of the weekend was a blur of drink fuelled dancing and
parting till the early hours.
It's easier just to point you to the official itinerary so you can see
what other events were on which we missed.
http://tinyurl.com/56eg52
